Lions sign 11 undrafted free agents, release eight players

Missouri quarterback James Franklin is among the Lions’ rookie signees. Franklin threw for 2,429 yards in 2013, completing 62.1 percent of his attempts while throwing 19 touchdowns and six interceptions.

I haven’t seen much of Franklin but his game seems to be a little bit like Russell Wilson…at least from the little I have seen. If Stafford were to get injured…hopefully not…I would like to see what Franklin has.

Two undrafted free agents on our team last year made big contributions and would make most rosters in the league easily as of right now… joe fauria and la’adrian waddle. So im all for the UDFAs. See what they got. Not much different from a 7th rounder.

Lucas is a mountain of a guy….6’9″ and change, 325….if he can continue to improve like he has the last 2 years he could be the next Waddle or Fauria that Mayhew has plucked from the UDFA pool to be come a productive NFL player….

Kind of strange that people are passing judgement on teams based on players who are essentially glorified walk-ons.

Best of luck to the eight who were let go. It’s a good time to be looking for work with another team.

clrathfon says:May 13, 2014 1:09 AM

I don’t understand why they didn’t go after free agent DB Marcus Roberson out of Florida. He was a potential 1st round pick that fell out of the draft because he didn’t interview well and said some things that teams didn’t like. I mean hey, sign him undrafted, and give him a shot. The worst they can do is release him and we need DB help and depth anyway. These are the things that bug me when it comes to the Lions. Now St. Louis signed him and could possibly hit on something for nothing….smh